Deborah Poe

Deborah Poe is the author of the poetry collections Keep (in circulation), the last will be stone, too (Stockport Flats, 2013), Elements (Stockport Flats, 2010), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords, 2008), as well as a novella in verse, Hélène (Furniture Press, 2012). Deborah also coedited Between Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction and Criticism (Peter Lang, 2012) and is working on finding a home for her first full-length novel. Associate professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, Deborah directs the creative writing program and founded and curates the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit. She has also taught at Western Washington University, Binghamton University, SUNY, Port Townsend Writer’s Workshop in Washington, and Casa Libre en La Solana in Tucson, and will serve as Visiting Writer for Seattle University during Winter Term 2016.

Recently in Jacket2

An omnipoetics project and the role of translation

[A talk presented November 16, 2018 as a keynote at “The Fabricant: Symposium on the Figure of the Translator,” University of California, Santa Barbara. Original title: “Toward a Poetry and Poetics of the Americas: A Transnational Assemblage in Progress.”]

[A talk presented November 16, 2018 as a keynote at “The Fabricant: Symposium on the Figure of the Translator,” University of California, Santa Barbara. Original title: “Toward a Poetry and Poetics of the Americas: A Transnational Assemblage in Progress.”]

Gwendolyn Brooks, 'Riot'

Amber Rose Johnson, Davy Knittle, and Tonya Foster joined Al Filreis to discuss the poem “Riot” by Gwendolyn Brooks. “Riot” is the title poem in the (now rare) chapbook published by Dudley Randall’s Detroit-based Broadside Press in 1969, and has been collected variously, including in the book Blacks (1994). The Eclipse site offers a PDF copy of the original Riot chapbook. The recording used as the basis of this PoemTalk conversation comes from a reading Brooks gave at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City on May 3, 1983.

Excerpts

We speak, in this cointerview, of our books — Serena Chopra’s Ic (Horse Less Press, 2017) and Aditi Machado’s Some Beheadings (Nightboat Books, 2017) — of epiphany and performance, the sociopolitical import of the line break, of decapitation, autoeroticism, and the sensorium. In so speaking, we discover that we are both, and proudly, grammarians.